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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Micheline Beaulieu Professor in Information Science\nChair 
 of the Informatics Collaboratory of the Social Sciences\nPro Vice-Chancell
 or for Academic Planning\nUniversity of Sheffield\, UK.\nInformation resea
 rch over the past fifty years has focused on\nthree distinct perspectives 
 namely: Information\nSeeking Behaviour\, laboratory based Information Retr
 ieval and\nthe evaluation of information\nsystems\, and Interactive Inform
 ation Retrieval. Although some\neffort has been made in IR\nevaluation res
 earch to accommodate both the user-centric social\nscience paradigm of Int
 eractive Information\nRetrieval and the system-centric scientific experime
 ntal\nparadigm of IR\, as exemplified by\nthe Okapi and TREC experiments\,
  it has proven to be very\ndifficult to address let alone resolve the\nfun
 damental tensions between the two approaches. However more\nrecently the c
 oncept of\n`information interaction in context’ has emerged as a\npossible
  alternative approach or framework for\nbridging the gap between the tradi
 tional evaluation divide. In\nthis talk\, Professor Beaulieu will explore
 \nwhat is meant by context in IR evaluation and how the concept is\nbeginn
 ing to be\noperationalized in empirical studies. The discussion will draw
 \non examples of experimental designs\nand settings that are leading the w
 ay in taking account of the\nwider aspects of interaction\, cognition\,\nt
 asks and users in information retrieval and assess the\npotential for info
 rmation interaction in context\nto serve as a unifying paradigm for the ev
 aluation of\ninformation systems.\n \nEveryone welcome!\n
DTSTART:20090407T160000Z
DTEND:20090407T173000Z
LOCATION:McLennan Library Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0C9\, 3459 ru
 e McTavish
SUMMARY:Dr. Micheline Beaulieu Colloquium
URL:/channels/event/dr-micheline-beaulieu-colloquium-1
 05632
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